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The American Civil War was not the first armed conflict to become the subject of the camera. But it was the first to generate large numbers of pictures, then shape both history and the public's awareness of what happened on the battlefield through the indelible impact of the scenes they recorded. That's one of many lessons found in "Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War from the George Eastman House Collection," which runs through April 27 at the Daily Press Gallery in The Mariners' Museum. Using more than 220 period images from its nationally known holdings — including more than 100 unidentified portraits of soldiers from the Post...

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The American Civil War was not the first armed conflict to become the subject of the camera.
But it was the first to generate large numbers of pictures, then shape both history and the public's awareness of what happened on the battlefield through the...

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But few on either side of the fiercely contested western Maryland...

When Tim Smith was growing up during the 1950s and ‘60s, many Civil War veterans from the Dare and Seaford sections of York County still lived on in the memories of relatives, friends and neighbors who had known them and heard their stories.
Several...

When Tim Smith was growing up during the 1950s and '60s, many Civil War veterans from the Dare and Seaford sections of York County still lived on in the memories of relatives, friends and neighbors who had known them and heard their stories.
Several...

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